Example sentences of "met [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the work had been met piecemeal by the state as the network has developed . |
| 2 | The Minister will know that those targets can be met only by the air ambulance in my area . |
| 3 | They 've done it by an alteration in the way local government finance works , so that the cost of providing new council housing and the cost of maintaining existing council housing has to be met entirely from the rent paid by existing council tenants , and erm a certain amount of Government subsidy . |
| 4 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 5 | In the Preface to the Wessex edition Hardy described how the music books of the choir were handwritten , hymns and psalms at the front , dances and ballads at the back ‘ till sacred and secular met together in the middle , often with bizarre effect ’ . |
| 6 | The Finance and Economy Ministers of Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Chile , Ecuador , Mexico , Peru and Uruguay had met together in the Chilean capital , Santiago , on Dec. 1-2 , to discuss a joint strategy ahead of the Bush visit . |
| 7 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 8 | In Newcastle on Tuesday , the challenges of Lyapunov 's scoring were met magnificently by the Philharmonia under the young Finnish conducter Esa-Pekka Salonen . |
| 9 | The two clubs have never met before in the FA Cup . |
| 10 | However , we suggested that this point can be met substantially by the traditional argument about economic policy making , that it is best to assign separate instruments to different targets . |
| 11 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 12 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 13 | It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent . |
| 14 | Booth 's cross was met strongly by the Finnish internationalist and his header from close range relieved any pre-match tension Aberdeen might have felt . |
| 15 | I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir . |
| 16 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 17 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 18 | The inevitable criticism that it was the former was met firmly with the contention that it was the latter , but it had to be admitted that no one could really be sure , and that to embark on such a venture an act of faith was indubitably required . |
| 19 | A new girl whom I had met previously at the school exchange joined my class and because the girl who had been my original friend still wanted my friendship in particular , jealousy began as both people wanted me ( oh , oh , so popular , eh ? ! ! ) |
| 20 | The cost of repair is met primarily by the Department of the Environment ( seventy per cent ) , and the remainder is contributed by the Church . |
| 21 | Met again at the Café Rotonde . |
| 22 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |